I'm pleased with the announcement. If I'm playing a first person shooter, I want monsters, puzzles and at least a sliver of plot. The latest versions of Quake and Unreal have completely given that up in favor of deathmatch gibfests. It's too bad, too, because the original Unreal had a great storyline -- for a FPS.

I just though about Doom the other night. I miss those moments when there's like 15 Imps and you fire a rocket into the mob to see the little *******s get complety gibbed. Nowdays the enemies get fewer and smarter. Hope ID won't make smart enemies. Aliens and Russians are stupid (if you see what I mean, patriot Americans... (anyone who's played SoF know what I mean))!

If EU happened after Jedi, then it can be considered canon because according to everybody's definition of the SW canon, movies take precidence. There were no movies after Jedi, nor any other "GL" poduced things. That means Zahn is canon; that means--no matter how much I hate to say it--Anderson is canon, etc...

No. Canon is anything written or written directly from something written by George Lucas. The movies, written by GL. The novelizations and the Radio dramas, come directly from the screenplays. If George didn't write it, its not canon.

How come it is so hard to say that something in the EU is canon until GL says otherwise.
Obviously he isn't in horrible disagreement with what EU is out there because her hasn't made a fuss over all of the books being published under the Star Wars umbrella...

the thing is, the EU contradicts canon stuff, as well as itself. Even Zahn's 'official' HttE trilogy has contradictions... he claims in them that the Clone Wars happened when Anakin was 4... but in ANH Obi-Wan says that he and Anakin had fought in the Clone Wars. Hmmm. and there's others, such as Palpatine's age that he screwed up.